英语词汇fatwa的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	fatwa
词源	fatwa. An Arabic word meaning an edict given by a Muslim religious authority, the ruling often a death sentence. The word, also spelled fatwah, became well-known internationally in 1989 when Iran’s religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini called for the death of novelist Salmon Rushdie for writing The Satanic Verses (1988), a novel many Muslims thought blasphemous. Though this fatwa was cancelled 10 years later, the word is still used, of- ten loosely.
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